In this OnPoint we consider when discrimination and employment claims can be brought in Great Britain by those working overseas, with particular focus on the recent discrimination case of Ravisy v Simmons & Simmons LLP and...more
5/16/2019
/ Article 8 ,
Brussels Regulation ,
Domicile ,
Employee Mobility ,
Employment Tribunals ,
Equal Pay ,
Equality Act ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
International Jurisdiction ,
International Litigation ,
Jurisdiction ,
Race Discrimination ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sufficient Connection Test ,
Traveling Employee ,
UK ,
UK Employment Appeal Tribunal ,
Unfair Dismissal
The UK Government recently published its Good Work Plan, a package of labour market reforms proposed in response to the review conducted by Matthew Taylor into the changing British labour market and which published its...more
1/7/2019
/ Agency Relationship ,
Breach of Contract ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Derogation ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Tribunals ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Gig Economy ,
Holiday Pay ,
Labor Reform ,
Notice Requirements ,
Penalties ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Sweden ,
Temporary Employees ,
UK ,
Written Agreements
The maximum compensation that the Employment Tribunal can award for “ordinary” unfair dismissal claims will increase from 6 April 2018, as will the weekly wage figure for calculating an employee's entitlement to a statutory...more
The UK Government today announced its response to “Good Work: the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices.” This was an independent review commissioned by the Government and published in July 2017 into the changing British...more
2/8/2018
/ Employee Benefits ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Tribunals ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Flexible Work Arrangements ,
Gig Economy ,
HMRC ,
Holiday Pay ,
Independent Contractors ,
International Labor Laws ,
Minimum Wage ,
National Insurance Contributions ,
Sick Pay ,
UK ,
Wage and Hour
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held in Barbulescu v Romania (Application no. 61496/08) last week that there was a breach of the right to privacy where an employer searched the contents of an...more
9/14/2017
/ Appeals ,
Article 8 ,
Damages ,
Email ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employee Monitoring ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employment Policies ,
Employment Tribunals ,
EU ,
European Convention on Human Rights ,
European Court of Human Rights ,
Investigatory Powers Act 2016 ,
Notice Requirements ,
Right to Privacy ,
UK ,
UK Data Protection Act ,
Wrongful Termination
The Supreme Court’s recent decision quashing the Employment Tribunal fee regime is not the only recent employment law news of which UK employers need to be aware. This OnPoint summarises some other recent developments....more
8/10/2017
/ Bereavement Leave ,
Directors ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employment Tribunals ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Holiday Pay ,
Joint and Several Liability ,
Over-Time ,
Parental Leave ,
Personal Liability ,
UK ,
UK Employment Appeal Tribunal ,
UK Supreme Court ,
Unfair Dismissal ,
Whistleblowers
The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices was published this week and this update reports on its detailed recommendations for reform of UK employment law in terms of its application to those who are engaged other than as...more
This update reports on the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Chesterton Global Limited and anor v Nurmohamed in which it considered the public interest requirement of the UK’s whistleblowing legislation....more
Whether employers can lawfully – or indeed should – equalise the Shared Parental Pay which they offer with the enhanced maternity pay which they provide – is proving not to be a straightforward issue as a recent Employment...more
The maximum compensation that the Employment Tribunal can award for “ordinary” unfair dismissal claims will increase from 6 April 2017, as will the weekly wage figure for calculating an employee's entitlement to a statutory...more
In the recent case of Garamukanwa v Solent NHS Trust the UK Employment Appeal Tribunal ("EAT") held that the Claimant, Mr Garamukanwa, had no reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of emails sent to a work colleague...more
The maximum compensation that the Employment Tribunal can award for “ordinary” unfair dismissal claims will increase from 6 April 2016, as will the weekly wage figure for calculating an employee's entitlement to a statutory...more
The maximum compensation that the Employment Tribunal can award for “ordinary” unfair dismissal claims will increase from 6 April 2015, as will the weekly wage figure for calculating an employee's entitlement to a statutory...more
When considering the potential dismissal of an employee, UK employers understandably want to know what their maximum financial exposure could be if things go wrong. There is, however, often no simple answer to this question....more
This OnPoint reports on the judgments handed down by the Employment Appeal Tribunal today confirming that under UK law the calculation of holiday pay must include overtime and taxable travelling time payments, that the...more
The Government has now announced the implementation date - Monday 29 July 2013 - for the introduction of the payment of fees in relation to Employment Tribunal claims. A claimant will be required to pay an “issue fee” on...more